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Moist and Crispy Donuts with Sugar Coating

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The Demant family is definitely a donut loving family, so it hurt our greasy hearts that we are not able to buy good, soft and greasy donuts in Denmark. Several places sell donuts but most often it is just a heavy and dry chocolate covered replica of a donut… One could wonder if the ‘creaters’ had ever tasted a real good donut – like those from Crispy Krem 😀

The recipe for these donuts is actually a CRONUT recipe (for those of you who do now what cronuts is, the easiest way to describe them is that it is a love child between a donut and a croissant). Actually we are not allowed to call it cronuts, as the ‘inventer’ has gotten copyright on the name – how wired is that??
Well, to get back to the recipe the butter was a little to soft and I blended it a few seconds to long so the flour mixture ended up being small crumbles instead of large one. Another thing which I did wrong (if the result were to be cronuts) was that I properly folded a rolled the dough to much without there being any flour between the layers, but as you can see on the pictures below it all ended happily with perfect moist, crispy donuts – actually my very first home made donuts 🙂

Donuts are actually easier to make than expected, but this recipe takes at least 12-15 hours including the resting time. I do not know if all donut recipes take that long, but I definitely believe that the long resting time has done something good for the end result – but try it yourself and leave a comment with your opinion 🙂

 

Ingredients (14 donuts)

1/4 cup water, room temperature

1/4 cup whole milk, room temperature

2/3 cup butter, cold

2 cups flour

2 tbsp. sugar

1 tbsp. dry active yeast

1/2 tsp. salt

1 cup canola oil for frying

2/3 cup sugar for coating

 

Combine water, milk and yeast in a mixing bowl and stir for a few seconds. Cut the cold butter into small cubes and place it in a blender together with flour, sugar and salt. Blend for a few seconds until butter and flour begins to crumble.IMG_1597

Add the crumbled flour mixture into the wet ingredients and use a plastics spatula to combine. IMG_1598

Pour the combined dough onto a floured surface and form a ball. Place in a bowl and cover with plastic wrap. Let rest in the fridge for 2 hours.IMG_1599

Place the rested dough on a lightly floured surface and roll it out until it is approximately 1/2-inch thick. Fold and repeat the process 4-5 times. Fold the last layer three times, wrap it in plastic foil and fridge over night.

Unwrap the rested dough and roll it out on a slightly floured surface. It should be approximately 2/3 inches thick. Use a 2 1/2 inch pastry cutter to cut out 14 donuts, and a 1 inch pastry cutter to cut the hole in the middle of the donuts. Place the donuts on a piece of baking paper, cover with a kitchen towel and let rest for an additional hour. IMG_1604

Place the canola oil in a frying pan and turn on the heat. The oil is perfect at 300F. Fry the donuts for 2-3 minutes on each side or until golden brown.IMG_1605 IMG_1606

Let the fried donuts rest on a piece of paper towel for a few minutes until dry, then turn them in the sugar 🙂

If you do not plan to eat them all at once, you can store them for 2-3 days in an airtight container at room temperature.IMG_1608 IMG_1609

Bon Appétit!

 

Ingredients (14 donuts)

0.6 dl water, room temperature

0.6 dl whole milk, room temperature

150 g butter, cold

250 g flour

2 tbsp. sugar

1 tbsp. dry active yeast

1/2 tsp. salt

2.5 dl canola oil for frying

1.6 dl sugar for coating

Lebanese Lamb Meatballs with Herb Dressing

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This week is ‘try something totally new week’ and the Middle Eastern cuisine seemed to be worth a try. We have successfully made lamb before but never minced lamb, so we were quite excited about the result.
We do not know an awful lot about lamb meat, but our experience says to choose low fat lamb meat as to much fat might add a wooly taste to the dish. Making meatballs you need at least 5-10% fat to end up with the perfect consistency, and in this instance we will recommend that you choose low fat lamb meat and them some beef with a little more fat – that way you can avoid that your hard work ends up tasting like an old sheep 🙂

Another thing with these meatballs is the spices…. The Middle Eastern cuisine use a lot of interesting spices and one of them is cinnamon. In Denmark we often combine the smell and taste of cinnamon with christmas, cookies, cakes, rise pudding and so on… So when a meat recipe calls for cinnamon, we rethink making it! But today we are both glad that we decided to make these fabulous meatballs, but in our version of the recipe we have only added half of the advised cinnamon and you can still taste it, so we are glad that we did not add the entire recommended amount.

The last thing to comment on before you go ahead and make these delicious meatballs, is the dressing. Or wait… actually, we have nothing else to say than FABULOUS. We will definitely make this dressing again, as it can be served for all sorts of salads, casserole or just as dipping for a good home baked bread 🙂

 

Ingredients (4 servings)

Meatballs

1 pound beef, minced

1 pound lamb, minced

1 egg

2/3 cup bread crumbs

2/3 cup feta cheese, crumbled

4 shallots, minced

4 garlic cloves, minced

1/5 cup parsley, chopped

1/5 cup mint leaves, chopped

1 tsp. ground cumin

1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon

1 tsp. salt

1 tsp. pepper

Canola oil for frying

 

Herb Dressing

1 2/3 cup sour cream

3 tsp. tahin

1/2 cup cilantro, chopped

1/4 cup mint leaves, chopped

1/4 cup parsley, chopped

1 garlic clove, minced

1 lemon, juice

Salt and pepper

 

Garnish

3 tbsp. pine nuts

Mint and cilantro leaves

 

Place all ingredients for the meatball, except canola oil, in a mixing bowl and knead until combined evenly.
Make teaspoon-sized balls and fry them in canola oil for a few minutes until golden brown. Remove the meatballs from the oil and place them in a heat proof dish and bake in the oven at 400F for 15-18 minutes or until they are well done.

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While the meatballs bake in the oven, you can prepare the yoghurt. Place all the yoghurt ingredients in a bowl and stir well to combine. Fridge until serving.

Sprinkle the pine nuts and herb leaves over the finished meatballs and serve with yoghurt together with chopped cucumber, tomatoes and naan bread or as we had it, in corn tortillas. IMG_1579

 

Bon Appétit!

 

Ingredients (4 servings)

Meatballs

450 g beef, minced

450 g lamb, minced

1 egg

1.5 dl cup bread crumbs

1.5 dl feta cheese, crumbled

4 shallots, minced

4 garlic cloves, minced

0.5 dl parsley, chopped

0.5 dl mint leaves, chopped

1 tsp. ground cumin

0.5 tsp. ground cinnamon

1 tsp. salt

1 tsp. pepper

Canola oil for frying

 

Yoghurt

4 dl sour cream

3 tsp. tahin

1.25 dl cilantro, chopped

0.6 dl mint leaves, chopped

0.6 dl parsley, chopped

1 garlic clove, minced

1 lemon, juice

Salt and pepper

 

Garnish

3 tbsp. pine nuts

Mint and cilantro leaves

 

Breaded Schnitzels with Celery Puree and Capers

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Last night we had these delicious breaded ham schnitzels with buttered capers and celery puree. Traditionally, schnitzels is made from veal, but we often use ham instead as it is cheaper (and we almost always have ham in freezer )! Another tradition when serving schnitzels is butters peas, french fries, capers and anchovies, but we wanted to try something new and with celeriac growing in the garden it was a obvious choice.
If you are not a huge fan of lemon thyme, you can of cause replace it with regular thyme, some other herb of your own choice – or you can just leave out the herbs and serve a plain celery puree.

To decide whether to use the apples or not, we made a portion with and a portion without. The portion without was great – the soft celery puree, the crisp schnitzel and the salty capers, while the portion with apples was absolutely fabulous!! The apples added the sourness so it ended up containing four tasting notes which, in combination, can end up as the perfect meal 🙂

Hope that you will enjoy making and serving this recipe for your friends and family.

 

Ingredients (4 servings)

Schnitzels

4 ham schnitzels

2 tbsp. flour

1 egg, lightly beaten

1 cup bread crumbs

Salt

Pepper

2 tbsp. butter

 

Celery Puree

1 large celeriac

4 cups whole milk

1 tbsp. fresh lemon thyme leaves

Salt

Pepper

 

Garnish

10 slices bacon, fried and crumbled

2 tbsp. capers

1 large apple, diced

 

Season the schnitzels with salt and pepper and turn them in flour followed by the beaten eggs and the bread crumbs. Leave in the fridge to rest while you make the celery puree.

Peel the celeriac and cut it into 1-inch cubes. Place in a sauce pan together with the milk and bring to a boil. Be very carefully when you boil milk. Turn down the head as soon as it begins to boil and let cook for 20-25 minutes or until you can mash a cube with a fork. Separate the milk from the celeriac and place celeriac and thyme leaves in a blender and add tablespoons of milk the milk while blending, until you reach the wanted consistency. Season with salt and pepper and let rest while you fry the schnitzels.

Melt 1/2 tbsp. butter at medium heat and fry two of the schnitzels for 3-4 minutes on each side. Add another 1/2 tbsp. butter when you turn the schnitzels. Do the same with the two remaining schnitzels. Toss the capers in the remaining butter from the schnitzels.

Serve the schnitzels on top of the celery puree and garnish with the buttered capers, crumbled bacon and diced apples.

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Bon Appétit!

 

Ingredients (4 servings)

Schnitzels

4 ham schnitzels

2 tbsp. flour

1 egg, lightly beaten

2.5 dl bread crumbs

Salt

Pepper

30 g butter

 

Celery Puree

1 large celeriac

1 liter whole milk

1 tbsp. fresh lemon thyme leaves

Salt

Pepper

 

Garnish

10 slices bacon, fried and crumbled

5 g butter

2 tbsp. capers

1 large apple

Raspberry Yoghurt Ice Cream

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Almost everyone we know LOVES ice cream and could eat it every day if possible 🙂 But we also know that most ice creams contain a large amount of fat which we try to avoid in our everyday cooking.

Instead of dropping the everyday ice cream, you can choose a variation which is both tasty and much less fatty: yoghurt ice cream. The yoghurt chosen for this ice cream contains 0.5% fat but many recipes use Greek Yoghurt with 2-10% fat, so the choice of yoghurt is only a matter of taste. I used a low fat variation, as it is the yoghurt I eat for breakfast every day and had some leftovers.

The raspberries are from our own garden and has a fabulous combination of both sweets and sour flavours. I only use the raspberry juice, as I hate getting the small cores between my teeth, but once again it is a matter of taste!

Hope that you will find this ice cream as delicious as we do 🙂

Ingredients (4 servings)

2 cups raspberries

1 1/3 cup yoghurt, natural

4 egg yolks

1/2 cup sugar

1/5 cup water

Blend the berries and strain the juice through a strainer. Fold the juice into the yoghurt and set a side while preparing the rest.

Place water and sugar in a sauce pan bring to a boil. Let boil for 2-3 minutes, stirring occasionally.

Whisk the egg yolks together. Slowly pour the hot sugar mixture into the egg yolks under intense whisking and keep whisking until the mixture is thick and light yellow (like eggnog).

Pour the mixture into the yoghurt and stir until combined. Pour into your ice cream maker and let run for 40-45 minutes. Transfer the ice cream to an airtight container and freeze for at least 1 hour before serving.

Serve for brunch with honey roasted nuts and fresh berries or for dessert after a heavy dinner.

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Bon Appétit!

Ingredients (4 servings)

250 g raspberries

3 dl yougurt, natural

4 egg yolks

120 g sugar

0.5 dl water

Cuban Rum Ice Cream

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We have wanted an ice cream maker for years, but Chris has been reluctant to let me as he claimed that he was not a huge fan of ice cream (the reason is that he is cheap 😉 ) Then one day I decided that now was the time to buy one and take the consequence if he god mad (I served the first ice cream and waited for his opinion before telling him that I had bought it, and he loved it)! So I began to search the web to find out which model to choose and on top of the wishlist was a Gelatissimo Exclusive but it is quite expensive and as we are planning some life changing events which quite certainly will be very expensive, I decided to choose an cheaper model.

We have had a Kitchen Aid stand mixer for several year and we use it almost every day – couldn’t live without it! Searching the web for reviews of Kitchen Aids ice cream maker I found mixed opinions but an old colleague of mine have spoken very well about, and I therefore chose to buy it and test it for myself (the price was of cause a huge part of the decision). This Cuban rum ice cream is my third ice cream and I must admit that I am very happy with the result and feel that Kitchen Aids ice cream maker is very good taking the price into consideration.

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Ingredients (6 servings)

2 cups cream

2/5 cup whole milk

2/3 cup condensed milk

2 vanille pods, seeds

4 tbsp. Cuban Rum

 

Dark Quality Chocolate for topping

 

Whip the cream until light and fluffy. Add the remaining ingredients and and whisk to combine. Pour into your ice cream maker and let it run for approximately 20 minutes or until it tells you that the ice cream is finished. Serve immediately if you want a soft ice cream or transfer to an airtight container and freeze. We always freeze the ice cream for 2-4 hours before serving as we like the consistency to more firm than soft ice, but it is a only a matter of taste 🙂

Serve after a good dinner with a glass of rum 🙂

IMG_1570Bon Appétit!

Ingredients (6 servings)

5 dl cream

1 dl whole milk

200 g condensed milk

2 vanilla pods, seeds

4 tbsp. Cuban Rum

Meatballs and Stewed cabbage – renewal of an old Danish classic

~ Ann & Chris Demant ~ 2 Comments

Meatballs and stewed cabbage is an old classic in the Danish kitchen, but many young people finds it boring, tasteless and totally overcooked!

We believe that everything can taste good, as long as it has been cooked be love and sometimes a good portion of patience 😉 So a few days ago we invited my parents over for dinner and decided to renew the old classic which was a regular dish during my childhood winters. I was quite excited to hear my parents opinions as it matters a lot, so I must admit that I was a bit nervous. However, the nervousness was completely pointless as they LOVED it and almost licked the plates – Chris loved it too, and he is normally NOT a fan of traditionally Danish food 🙂

 

Ingredients (4 servings)

Meatballs:

1/2 lb. minced pork

1/2 lb. minced veal

1 large onion, minced

1 egg

3 tbsp. oatmeal

1/4 cup milk

Salt & pepper

2 tbsp. butter

 

Stewed Cabbage:

1/2 cabbage, thinly sliced

2-3 shallots, sliced

1 cup corn

2 tbsp. butter

2 tbsp. flour

3 cups milk

3 tbsp. chives, chopped

Salt & pepper

 

Instructions

Meatballs:

Combine all ingredients for the meatballs in a bowl and use your fingers to mix it together. Cover with plastic foil when combined and let rest in the fridge for at least 30 minutes, preferably 1-2 hours.

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Divide the meat into 16 equally sized pieces and form as small balls. Melt half of the butter at medium heat and place half of the meatballs in the pan. Press slightly on top of the meatballs so they get a bit flat instead of round. Fry for 6-7 minutes on each side. IMG_1430

Place in a 200F warm oven while frying the other half of the meatballs. Keep warm until serving.IMG_1431

Stewed Cabbage:

Cook the sliced cabbage in salted water 12 minutes. Transfer to a colander and let the water drip of.

Melt butter and sauté sliced onions until soft. Add the flour and whisk well until the butter has absorbed the flour and the roux is thick and shiny. IMG_1433

Slowly pour the milk into the roux while whisking. Be careful not to add to much milk at a time – the roux needs to keep cooking ALL the time and adding too much milk will slow down the process.

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Add the corn, season with salt and pepper and let cook at low heat for 5-10 minutes.  IMG_1435

Add the cooked cabbage and chopped chives a few minutes before serving and make sure that all cabbage gets turned in the sauce.IMG_1437

Serve the stewed cabbage together with the meatballs and cook potatoes 🙂IMG_1438

Bon Appétit!

 

Metric measures

Meatballs:

225 g minced pork

225 g minced veal

1 large onion, minced

1 egg

3 tbsp. oatmeal

0.6 dl milk

Salt & Pepper

2 tbsp. butter

 

Stewed Cabbage:

1/2 cabbage, thinly sliced

2-3 shallots, sliced

2.5 dl corn

2 tbsp. butter

2 tbsp. flour

7.5 dl milk

3 tbsp. chives, chopped

Salt & pepper

Yellow Tomato Sauce

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The number of tomato varieties are HUGE and comes in several different colors and shapes. My (Ann) parents has been growing tomatoes as long as I can remember and my dad always wants to try new varieties. This year he decided to to the yellow pear tomato and he sowed several seeds hoping to get a plant or two – but unexpectedly they all grew and he ended up with 7 or 8 plant of this specific sort (and then came the 3 others sorts he sowed the year).

Some of the pants were given to family and friend (we got a plant to – the picture below) and then he kept the 3 plants himself. Having kept three plant himself means that one needs to be creative when cooking, if not having tomato salad every day 🙂

Last week there were an over float of tomatoes and my parents agreed that we should make try and make some yellow tomato sauce. Normally when we make tomato sauce we add red wine, but this would ruin both the taste and color of this sauce, so we decided to use chicken stock instead, which turned out to be the perfect match 🙂

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Ingredients (4 cups)

2 large onions, chopped

4 garlic cloves, chopped

2 tbsp. thyme leaves

1 tbsp. ground pepper

1 tbsp. butter

1-2 jalapeños, sliced

2 lb. yellow pear tomatoes, chopped

2 cups chicken stock

1 tbsp. salt

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Melt butter in a saucepan, add chopped onions, garlic, thyme and ground pepper. Saut̩ for a few minutes until the onions begins to soften Рthen add the chopped tomatoes and jalape̱os.

Stir and let cook for about 5-8 minutes until the tomatoes gets soft.IMG_1312IMG_1314

When the tomatoes has softened, you can the chicken stock and bring to a boil. IMG_1315 IMG_1316

When boiling add salt and turn down the heat. Let simmer for approximately 2 hours or until it looks like the picture below. Stir occasionally.IMG_1318

Transfer the cooked tomatoes to blender and blend until smooth. Pour into sterilized jar, close immediately and fridge until use. Can be stored in the fridge for up to 4 weeks.IMG_1319 IMG_1321

Bon Appétit!

Ingredienser (1 liter)

2 large onions, chopped

4 garlic cloves, chopped

2 tbsp. thyme leaves

1 tbsp. ground pepper

1 tbsp. butter

1-2 jalapeños, sliced

900 g yellow pear tomatoes, chopped

1/2 liter chicken stock

1 tbsp. salt

Banana and Blackberry Muffins with Browned Butter Glaze

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Bananas is one of those wired fruits which you either love or hate. I out household we hate them, but due to their high level of carbohydrates I alway eat one after my training pass. Sunday evening I realized that I had bought new bananas without eating the old ones first, so I decided to use the old ones for some kind of cake. I never bake anything containing bananas so I did not have any recipes and I therefore had to ask my Facebook friends and search the web, and in the end it ended up the with a combination of several recipes 🙂

If you are more into chocolate than blackberries, you can of cause change that part of the recipe, but if you do that, I would recommend that you chop the chocolate and fold it into the batter instead of placing it in the middle, like the blackberries.

 

Ingredients (12 muffins)

1/3 cup butter, melted

2 cups flour

1 tsp. baking powder

1/2 tsp. soda

1 pinch of salt

1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon

1/2 tsp. ground nutmeg

1/2 cup sugar

1 tsp. vanilla extract

1 tsp. honey

2 eggs

1/2 cup milk

2 large bananas, ripe

45 blackberries, fresh or frozen

 

Glaze:

1 stick butter

1/4 cup sugar

 

Place bananas in a bowl ans mash well. Set aside while preparing the rest.

Shift flour, baking powder, soda, salt cinnamon and nutmeg into a bowl. Add sugar and mix well. In a second bowl, with a folk, beat together eggs, vanilla extract, honey, butter and milk.

Add the bananas to the egg mixture and stir to combine. Pour the flour mixture into the egg mixture in three steps, folding gently between each.

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Line standard muffins tins with paper liners. Fill each paper line with 1 tsp. of the banana batter. Then place 4 blackberries in the middle of the batter. Then add another tsp. of the batter. Make sure that the blackberries are fully covered with banana batter.

Bake at 375F for 20 minutes or until at toothpick comes out clean. Let rest in muffin tins for 5 minutes and then 5 minutes in a wire rack.

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While cooling, melt the butter in a saucepan and let brown lightly (be careful not to burn). Transfer to a small bowl – same diameter as the muffins. Dip the top of the cupcakes in the browned butter and sprinkle with sugar.

Serve immediately with a cup of good quality coffee or hot chocolate 🙂

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Bon Appétit!

Ingredienser (12 cupcakes)

75 g smør, smeltet

250 gram hvedemel

1 tsk. bagepulver

1/2 tsk. natron

1 knivspids salt

1/2 tsk. stødt kanel

1/2 tsk. stødt muskatnød

115 gram sukker

1 tsk. vanilje ekstrakt

1 tsk. honning

2 store banner, modne

2 æg

1.25 dl mælk

Italian Casserole Bread

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I spent last friday night home alone with a good movie and a glass of red wine. I am not that good at making dinner for one, so instead I decided to buy some cheese, a sausage and bake a bread with a good crust and with lots of flavor. I only searched the web for few minutes before finding this great recipe. It is without doubt one of the best bread recipes that I have ever tried, but have in mind that the bread should be eaten same day as baked, and preferably while still warm 🙂

 

Ingredients (1 bread)

Active yeast, size of a finger nail

8/10 cup water

1/2 cup beer

1 tbsp. vinegar

3 1/5 cup flour

1 tsp. salt

1 tsp. sugar

 

Day 1:

Add yeast, water, beer and vinegar to mixing bowl and stir to combine. Add the remaining ingredients and use our fingers to combine. Knead until just combined and the dough is still wet and lumpy.

Cover with plastic foil and leave on the kitchen table to raise for 12-18 hours (the longer, the better).

Day 2:

Cover your kitchen table with flour and pour the wet and raised dough out. Fold it together one from each side (= 4 times) and place it in a greased dish and cover with plastic foil and let raise in a warm place for two hours.

Put you casserole into a water bath one hour within the raising time if it is made of clay. Leave it covered in water for 10 minutes before placing it in a cold oven. Turn the oven on to convection at 430F or regular oven at 460F.

Take the hot casserole out of the oven when the two hour raising time is finished. Sprinkle the bottom of the casserole with flour, pour in the dough and sprinkle with flour again. Put on the lid and place the casserole in the oven and bake for 30 minutes. Then remove the lid, and turn down the heat to 400F/430F and bake for additional 15 minutes.

Remove the baked bread from the casserole and let rest on a wire rack for 15-20 minutes before serving.

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As you can see on the picture below, the bread is not as light as expected. This because I folded the dough twice from each side instead of only one as advised in the recipe. So be careful not to knead the dough or fold to to much, as it will remove the air bubbles and leave the finished bread more dense.IMG_1213

Bon Appétit!

Ingredienser (1 brød)

En lille klump gær, på størrelse med en lillefingernegl

2 dl vand

1 dl øl

1 spsk. eddike

400 g mel

1 tsk. salt

1 tsk. sukker

Chocolate Birthday Cake with Berries

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Yesterday a friend of mine turned 30 and she asked if I could make her a cake. She did not have any preferences other than CHOCOLATE, so I went for a day wondering what to make. First I wanted to make a chocolate cake with strawberry mousse, but the strawberry season is long gone, meaning that the taste of the berries are gone. So instead I decided to make this chocolate cake covered in whipped cream with crushed chocolate meringue cookies. Making the cake made me totally peckish, but unfortunately we was unable to take part in her birthday – DAMN! But but but that only gives me a reason to make the cake once more 🙂

 

Ingredients (12 servings)

1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder

1 1/2 cups flour

1 1/8 cup sugar

1 tsp. baking powder

1 tsp. baking soda

1 tsp. salt

1 1/2 sticks butter

2 large eggs, room temperature

1 tbsp. vanilla extract

1 cup sour cream

1/2 cup dark quality chocolate (70%)

 

2 cups cream

2 cups chocolate meringue cookies, crushed

20 strawberries

20 raspberries

1/4 cup dark quality chocolate (70%), chopped

 

Melt butter and sugar in a sauce pan. Stir to combine. When melted and combined, transfer to a mixing bowl and whisk at medium speed until cooled (takes 5-10 minutes).

In another bowl mix together cocoa powder, flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda.

When the butter and sugar mixture is cooled, add one egg at a time and whisk between each. Then add vanilla extract.

Shift in flour mixture in four batches, alternating with the sour cream, and whisk until just combined. Add the melted chocolate and gently fold it into the batter with a rubber spatula.

Add the batter to a springform pan and bake at 350F for 45 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean in the middle of the cake. Let cool for 20 minutes before loosening the edges of the cake with a butter knife (but do not remove in from the springform). Let cool completely before removing the cake from the springform pan.

Slice the cake into 3 equally thick pieces. I do not have a tool to do it with, so I just use a piece of wire, which works very well.

Whisk the cream until it gets soft peaks. Then whisk a little bit more, but be careful not to over whisk and turn it into butter! It just needs to be thick enough to cover the cake without running off. Add the crushed chocolate meringue cookies when the whipped cream has reached the wanted consistency. Fold until combined.

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Place the bottom of the three cake slices on a cake stand. Spread 1/2 cup of whipped cream onto the cake in an equally thick layer all the way around. Slice 10 strawberries and place them on top of the whipped cream. Sprinkle with half of the chopped chocolate. IMG_1183

Place the middle-slice of the cake on top and repeat the procedure, but replace the strawberries with half of the raspberries. Then top of the cake with the last slice.

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Cover with the remaining whipped cream and decorate with berries. Serve with a good cup of coffee 🙂

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Bon Appétit!

 

Ingredienser (12 stykker)

0.6 dl usødet kakaopulver

2.8 dl sukker

3.5 dl mel

1 tsk. bagepulver

1 tsk. natron

1 tsk. salt

172 g smør

2 store æg, stue temperatur

1 spsk vanille ekstrakt

2.5 dl creme fraiche

75 g mørk kvalitets chokolade (70%), smeltet

 

0.5 liter piskefløde

5 dl rutebiler, knuste

20 jordbær

20 hindbær

0.6 dl mørk kvalitets chokolade (70%), hakket

 

God fornøjelse venner 🙂